Securing railway-chairs and rail-clips to metallic sleepers



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J. H. 8L W. TOZER.

SBGURING RAILWAY CHAIRS ANI)l RAIL` CLIPS TOIMETALLIGSLBBPERS. No.356,016. Patented Jan. 11,1887.

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JAMES H. TOZER AND VILLIAM TOZER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,016, dated January11, 1887.

Application filed November 17, 1886. Serial No. 219,130. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES HONIBALL TOZER and VILLIAM TOZER, of London,England, engineers, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSecuring Railwayr- Chairs and Rail-Clips to Metallic Sleepers, of whichthe following is a speciiication.

The primary object of our invention is to provide more efficient meansof securing railway-chairs to metallic sleepers. With this object wemake the chair with one or more holes flanged on the under side, and wemake the sleeper with corresponding but uniianged holes, which theflanges on the chair will iit. Ve pass the iianges ofthe chair into orth rough the corresponding holes in the sleeper, and then secure theparts together by riveting. This riveting may be effected in severalways. According to the preferred way, we make the flanges of the flangedholes in the chair long enough to project some distance beyond the holesin the sleeper, we rivet or press overl the projecting part against theunder side of the sleeper, andwe nall y insertrivets through the iiangedholes and rivet these rivets over upon the riveted or pressed-overflanges, the rivet-heads bearing upon the top of the chair. According toanother way, the flanges of the flanged holes in the chair are not madelong enough to project beyond the holes in the' sleeper, and in thiscase, after inserting the iianges, we pass rivets through the liangedholes and rivet these rivets against the under side of the sleeper,their heads bearing upon the chair, as in the first way. According toanother way, we dispense with separate rivets and secure the partstogether by merely riveting or pressing over the projecting part of theflanges against the under side of the sleeper, as in the first way.

The flangedholes maybe formed in the chair by means of presses orotherwise. The holes will generally be made in iiat portions of thechair, and the configuration of the chair and its jaws will depend uponthe section of the rail to be secured therein, whether flat-bottomed,bull-headed, or other sections.

It is obvious that the position of the anges may be reversed-that is tosay, the holes in the sleeper may be lianged at their upper side and thechairhave corresponding unfianged holes to receive the flanges on thesleeper.

Our invention comprises the application of the same means toseouring'rail-clips to sleepeis-that is to say, that When,.instead of anentire chair being used, the rail has its seat directly upon the sleeperitself, or upon a pad or layer of felt or other material laid thereon,

and the sleeper has clips taking the place ofy chair-jaws to hold therail in position, we secure said clips to the sleepers precisely in themanner above described in respect of chairs. ln the accompanyingdrawings, Figuresl and 2 are vertical sections illustrating thepreferred Way of carrying out our invention as applied to chairssuitable to receive bullheaded and flat-bottomed rails, respectively. cis the sleeper, made with plain or uniianged holes at b b. respondingholes at d d, these holes being formed with tlanges c e,which tit theholes b b. After passing the iianges ce into the holes b b, the portionsof the flanges that proj ectbeyond these holes are riveted or pressedover against therunder side of the sleeper, as seen at ff. g g arerivets, which are then passed through the anged holes and riveted overagainst the riveted or pressed-over parts f f of the tlanges ce, theirheads bearing upon the top of the chair, as shown. v

Fig. 3 illustrates the modification in vwhichthe iianges c c are notlong enough to project beyond the corresponding holes b b. In this case,after passing the iianges e c into the holes b b, the rivets gg areinserted and riveted over against the under side of the sleeper.

Fig. 4 illustrates the modication in which no separate rivets areemployed. In this case the chair is secured to the sleeper by merelyriveting or pressing over the projecting part of the iianges e e againstthe under side of the sleeper, as seen at f f.

Fig. 5 illustrates a modification inwhich the flangeis reversed-that isto say, in which the sleeper has flanged holes to enter plain orunflanged holes in the chair. No separate rivets are shown in thisligure; but of course they can be used, if desired.

For convenience of manufacturin g the chairs, particularly those havingjaws (such as seen c is the chair, formed With-cor- IOO in Fig. l) toreceive bull-headed or doubleheaded rails, they may be formed in twopieces, each piece carrying one jaw. The pieces, when in place on thesleeper, would meet, preferably, below the seat for the rail, asindicated by the dotted line h in Fig. l.

' Fig. 6 illustrates the application of our invention to securingrail-clips to sleepers. cis the rail-clip, formed with a hole, cl,withflange e, which is passed through the corresponding hole b in thesleeper a, and then riveted over, as at f, after which a rivet, g, ispassed through the hole d and riveted over the partf. c is the clip forthe other side of the rail. It may Abe secured either by a bolt and nut,as shown,

or by the saine means as the clip c, in which latter case one side ofthe rail would be fixed by a key driven in between it and one of theclips. l

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As means of securing railway-chairs or railclips to metallicsleepers, one or more flanged holes in the chair or clip andcorresponding unanged holes in the sleeper, (or vice versa.) the flangesof said flanged holes being inserted into said unflanged holes and theparts being then secured by riveting, substantially as set forth.

2. As means of securing railway-chairs or rail-clips to sleepers, alian'ged hole, d, in the chair or clip and a corresponding uniiangedhole, b, in the sleeper, the flange of said anged hole d being passedinto and through said hole b, and its projecting end being then rivetedor pressed over against the under side of the sleeper, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

3. As means of securing railway-chairs or rail-clips to sleepers, aflanged hole, d, in the chair or clip, a corresponding unflanged hole,b, in the sleeper, the flange of said iianged hole being passed into andthrough said hole b, and its projecting end being then riveted orpressed over against the under side of the sleeper, and a rivet, g,passed through said flanged hole d and' then riveted over upon theriveted or pressed-over part of the liange, the rivet-head bearing uponthe top of the chair, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names in Ithe presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

JAMES H. TOZER. VI'LLIAM TOZER. Viitnesses:

GEORGE O. BACON, JOHN W. WILLIAMS, Jr.

